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Sunday, March 10, 2013

marcelle medallion {part 2}

I've spent the weekend slowly adding borders to my Marcelle Medallion quilt, digging through my scraps as well as stash and questioning myself every. single. step.of. the. way. Let me show you what I mean.

Once I finished my flying geese I realized there's such a thing as too much text print. See? All the three borders were sort of getting merged into one texty scrappy mess.

After a lot of thinking and pulling out an unbelievable amount of fabric from my stash, I decided to replace that middle texty border with white and light blue striped fabric. I think it separates the triangles and the geese really nicely and it calmed things down, too.

Then came more borders which of course meant even more fabric thrown all over the room and more decisions. I even thought of doing some "quilt surgery" and replacing the blue text print. Thankfully I stopped myself just in time.

At this point I just need two more borders and I'll be all done with this quilt top. Oh, I'm getting so very excited!!!

28 comments:

It's just beautiful...and the border substitution was perfect! I'm excited to work on my next border...the bricks, because I'll be able to use so many little scrap I love! It seems as if it will finish quickly, and then I'll need to find a new project!

Nice editing! You radically changed it (for the better IMO) with that light blue striped border. Way to go! I struggle with fabric selection and find myself agonizing over the smallest choices. Your work is always lovely but I agree these replacements were great decisions!

I like the result 'though I think the light blue border fits better than the text. I couldn't resist making a center block, too. Now I'm thinking about triangles or flying geese for the next step. As this will only be a pillow it's quite a hard decision. ;)